‘World is still livable due to BRICS counterbalancing West’

Adrian Salbuchi is an international political analyst, researcher and consultant. Author of several books on geopolitics in Spanish and English (including ‘The Coming World Government: Tragedy & Hope’), he is also a conference speaker in Argentina and radio/TV commentator.
He writes op-ed pieces for RT Spanish as well as RT English, and is a regular guest on alternative media radio and TV shows in the US, Europe and Latin America.
Adrian currently hosts his TV show ‘Segunda República’ on Channel TLV1 – Toda La Verdad Primero – in Buenos Aires, and is founder of the Second Republic Project (Proyecto Segunda República), a sovereign governance model for Argentina, Latin American countries and elsewhere.
His website is: www.asalbuchi.com.ar;
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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, China's President Xi Jinping and South African President Jacob Zuma pose for a photo after the BRICS leader's meeting at the G20 summit on September 5, 2013 in Saint Petersburg.(AFP Photo / SergeI Karpukhin) / AFP

The West is now starting to move to its final decay, with the Russia-China alliance becoming stronger, offering Latin America and other regions a multipolar model of the world, author and international consultant Adrian Salbuchi told RT.

RT:The BRICS nations are gathering for a sixth time, a lot of
deals are coming out of this. How important are these
agreements?

Adrian Salbuchi: They are indeed very important
because not only should we look at them from the point of view of
economic deals, which are very important for this part of the
world, especially with the ongoing financial crisis in the
Western world. But I think we should not lose sight of the fact
that BRICS, although it is shown as an economic agreement, has
turned into a geopolitical agreement. And if anything today the
world is still livable it is because Russia and China are mainly
offering a counterbalance to American, European, British, Israeli
imperialism throughout the whole world, and that includes Latin
America.

RT:It's expected that a joint BRICS
development bank will be created. What economic impact will it
have on the group?

AS: Enormous. I am speaking to you from
Argentina, which is a under serious chronic foreign debt crisis
which has been engineered since 40 years ago by the IMF and now
is being completed by the private banks with Golden Sachs, J.P.
Morgan, leading the whole deal that is an absolute rip-off. So
the fact that they will soon open an alternative to the IMF, this
public fund that will be set up by the BRICS nations, will give a
lot of relief to many countries that are unnecessarily indebted
to the Western banks and the IMF. So I think it’s something that
should fill us with a lot of optimism. So workers in Latin
America can stop working for international usury and start
working not only for our respective countries, but for the entire
region and for further afield as well.

RT:Many see BRICS as an organization able
to challenge the economic dominance of the West. Is it likely to
help foster a multipolar world?

AS: Absolutely. The West is now starting to move
to its final decay. I think the future will definitely have as
one of its main poles the Russian-Chinese alliance becomes it
gets stronger all the time, and obviously in our part of the
world countries like Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay and
Bolivia are understanding this very well, and these are the
countries that are becoming increasingly very powerful. Other
countries like Colombia and Mexico which are very pro-US are
having ongoing problems and they will probably have come towards
our side because this is where the real alternative is for the
future.

RT:Do you think multipolar world will
become a reality soon?

AS: Yes, I believe it will. No doubt that if the
Americans, the British and the Europeans had their way, we would
have a world government very soon. That’s not going to happen,
thanks to the BRICS nations with Russia and China as its center.
In Argentina we had General Juan Domingo Perón who was a very
good president and he spoke many years ago about continentalism,
in other words it was his way to say a multipolar world is the
only way to have future. All of Latin America, or at least South
America, should form one part of this multipolar world where we
of course can deal with the Western nations, no doubt about that,
that’s a historical issue, but we should look further afield
especially to China, to Russia, India, to even Africa, which is
very much ignored in this part of the world and less to Europe,
Britain and America which have brought so many problems, so much
hardship and so much poverty throughout all Latin America.

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